Emanuel Cheraskin

Chairman of Oral Medicine at UAB, author of 700+ scientific papers and 17 textbooks, and the man who coined "psychodietetics" — the argument that diet shapes mental state.

Cheraskin’s argument was that medicine had set its target too low: that measuring health as the absence of diagnosable disease misses the enormous territory between sick and well, and that nutrition is what moves a person across it.

He held two earned doctorates, chaired a department at a major medical school, and published prolifically in the peer-reviewed literature — an unusual profile on this circuit, and one reason his talks carried weight with audiences that were otherwise sceptical of the movement.

Named Orthomolecular Physician of the Year in 1996.

Selected books

• Psychodietetics (1974)
• Vitamin C: Who Needs It? (1993)

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